AGK External automation

[jacks13579]

On a side note - One day I would realy like to see the ability to just drag a single (or mutiple) ifo, dir, or what ever of a single movie and be able to batch que it up based on the current settings rather than all that clicking that is needed now when trying to queue up mutiple jobs, or even a way to pass a commandline to queue up jobs.


However... I noticed the ability to do short cuts now like
-- CTRL-O - open input dir dialog
-- CTRL-S - open save file dialog

This got me to thinking but I hit a brick wall - I have used exteral programs before like perfect keyboard, winbatch, etc which can do sendkeys and click buttons for you and they let you do scripting.
The problem is that the folder browswer dialog will not allow the input of a path as a string so there is no reliable way to automate queing up jobs in this manner. Is there any way to pass this information into the gui that an external app could send to it? Even the txt box for the input dir is not edtiable. In the short term could something like this be added to the capiblities of the gui?

Am I making sense?


Thanks.

[ydobon]

Hello, there.

Originally posted by jacks13579
[...] The problem is that the folder browswer dialog will not allow the input of a path as a string so there is no reliable way to automate queing up jobs in this manner. [...] Am I making sense?
Indeed you are. I have it "almost automated" with Macro Scheduler (I just pick the folder with the VOBs manually and press a key combination for a macro to set the rest of options as I want them).

So I add myself to this request. I've done a bit of Delphi programming and I seem to remember there was an option to be able to write the path in the folder selection dialog (at least when accessing the Windows API).

Maybe this can help?
http://delphi.about.com/library/weekly/aa010604a.htm


Regards,

[len0x]

It must be so hard to perform several clicks in the application! I'm totally satisfied with amount of automation in the tool, so it'll stay like this.

[ydobon]

Hi.

It's not hard to make a dozen clicks. But when you want to convert 26 episodes, it's annoying to have to select the audio tracks and subtitles over and over again.

I just said what I said as a suggestion, because I think the program would be slightly better that way. But of course, in the end, you're the one to make the final decision.

I know it's impossible to make everybody happy and that each programmer has his own preferences. So far you've had a quite good criteria on where to draw the line.

I gladly offer what little help I can. Maybe there's something I can do: command-line, config file (do you like .INI files?), ...


Regards,

[len0x]

Originally posted by ydobon

It's not hard to make a dozen clicks. But when you want to convert 26 episodes, it's annoying to have to select the audio tracks and subtitles over and over again.


That is a different issue. I'll address that, so that state of combobox is preserved.

[ydobon]

Originally posted by len0x
That is a different issue. I'll address that, so that state of combobox is preserved.

Following that idea then: Could the input directory be preserved too? Kind of "if previous folder still exist, start there; if not, start in My Computer".


Regards,

[len0x]

Originally posted by ydobon
Following that idea then: Could the input directory be preserved too? Kind of "if previous folder still exist, start there; if not, start in My Computer".


Its already preserved within single run of AutoGK.